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romancer|rəʊˈmænsə(r)|
Also 7 romanzer.
[f. romance v. + -er; in early use after OF. romanceour, later romancier, = Sp. romancero, It. romanziere (whence perh. the form in -zer).]
1. The author of a romance; a writer of romances or romantic fiction.
1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 157 Þe Romancer it sais, R[ichard] did mak a pele, On kastelle wise alle wais, wrouht of tre fulle welle.
1654Vilvain Th. Theol. 191 Fancies as fabulous Poets or Romanzers devise. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. i. Pref., He, as it may be said of other Romancers, hath made the fabulous rind so thick, that few can see through it into the useful sence. 1738Warburton Div. Leg. I. 19 These political Romancers from Plato to this Author. 1756–82Warton Ess. Pope I. vii. 355, I can find none of this age, but barren chroniclers, and harsh romancers in rhime. 1830Scott Demonol. x. 364 The tale might have made the fortune of a romancer. 1847H. Miller Test. Rocks ii. (1857) 80 Dragons as strange as were ever feigned by romancer of the middle ages. 1882Athenæum No. 2828. 20 In him has passed away the last of the historical romancers who received their impulse from Scott.
transf.1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 14 Your fashionable architect is indeed a finished romancer.
2. One who deals in extravagant fictions; an inventor of false history; a fantastic liar.
1663Proposal to use no Conscience 5 Those who are given to lying shall be called Romancers or Historians. 1671J. Glanvill Further Disc. Stubbe 7 So silly a Romancer are you. 1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. Clouds (1838) 65 See that romancer [sc. Philostratus] in his life of Apollonius. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel viii. 552 Rationalists, like other romancers, ‘ought to have good memories’.
3. A romantic person. rare—1.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) V. 110, I..thought it to be a feigned or Love-name... Most of the fair Romancers have in their early womanhood chosen Love-names.
Hence roˈmanceress. rare—1.
1841Thackeray Men & Pictures Wks. 1900 XIII. 378 The mild compositions of the French romanceresses pall on the palate. |